The Dominican Summer League season started today. Here is the box score for the DSL Yanks1, but the DSL Yanks2 box score isn’t up yet. Here’s the scoreboard for whenever it shows up. Based on who is on the rosters, OF Leonardo Molina will debut in the Rookie Gulf Coast League next month. The 16-year-old signed for $1.4M last summer.

Mason had a decent day today (.286/.286/.429 with only one K), so out of curiosity, I looked into his stats for the season.

Turns out there are actually some encouraging things there:

K%: 11.6% (his best since low-A)

BB%: 12.6% (nearly twice as good as his second-best year)

BABIP: .226 (well below his career norm of .300-ish, which gives you hope that his batting average will rise as the season goes on)

Steals: 10

Steal success rate: 91%

Still no power, but maybe he can turn into a .280/.350/.350 guy with 30-ish steals. Maybe? That’d be good for about 100 wRC+, and better performance than half of MLB got out of their CFs last year.

It’s Tanaka day. Let a guy dream.

Yanks

The thing about Williams and his BABIP is that he’s making a ton of weak contact.

lightSABR

Yeah, I can buy that. His BABIP is way out of line with his career numbers, but it’s actually better than what he did in his brief AA stint last year. So he may just be overmatched by AA pitching. I wish Fangraphs had batted ball data for minor leaguers so that we could get more detail.

Still, the substantial drop in strikeout rate and the large spike in BB rate are good news. A 1.08 BB/K rate? That’s Solartean.

Re. DSL, Yancarlos Baez looks like the only guy worthy of watching down there

YankeeGrunt

Yonauris Rodriguez was the other bonus baby from last year and is likely to be the SS for DSL2. He has a rep as a polished defensive SS, we’ll see where the bat is. But paying what we did for Molina meant that we only had money for one other big-ticket signing, so everyone else is low-dollar.

perfect double taper

Stairs is bored in AA.

forensic

I read somewhere that Ian Clarkin is awesome. They should call him up to help the rotation right away.

Cool Lester Smooth

Seems reasonable to me.

Cash needs to stop babying these guys!

Nettles9

Why was Tamarez sent back to the dsl after gcl last year? Dont typically see that.

Danny

Also with any foreign born player, it could certainly be visa issues.

Also he sucked last year, it’s quite possible Yankees’ scouts/officials evaluated him and determined him had no significant future and don’t wanna waste a roster spot/visa on him to play in the GCL.

Danny

As with*

CashmanNinja

You can officially put me on the Refsnyder bandwagon. I thought he should have been higher on the prospect list, but he *definitely* is more deserving than a lot of guys ahead of him. The dude is on fire and 9 extra base hits in his last 9 games while almost batting .500. Geez.

Cool Lester Smooth

Gotta say, I’m getting pretty excited about Refsnyder. It’s like we finally got one of those Cardinals “just knows how to hit” types.

Preston

A younger Matt Carpenter with better base running is fine by me.

nycsportzfan

Judge will be going to Tampa within the next month or so, I would think?

Good overall day at the plate for Ty Austin.

Dick M

Anyone got a read on Refs defense?

Jagielo Unchained

Time for Ref to come up. After a very slow first few weeks he has really had the best year of all the prospects so far. Given the hole at second, we need to move him along quickly to see if we have a within the organization solution.